50 Quote by Jonathan Lethem

“She was breaking her rules. They weren't stone after all, only small and fragile as paper cranes.... I understood why she held to them…

— Janet Fitch

“...Something I had seen as slid–not perfect, but solid–was suddenly crumbling. I felt like I was falling to pieces right along with it.”

— Sarah Dessen

“The pain broke through the skin, dismantled her pores, and ate away at everything that was once strong. She was laid bare with nothing…

— J. Autherine

“She used to grip me so tightly that the only way I could put her down was to pry her loose, one digit at…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“She held in her hands for one brief moment the globe which we spend our lives in trying to shape, round, whole, and entire…

— Virginia Woolf

“...everything had changed, and she had crumpled in front of me, and become wholly broken and lost...”

— Susan Hill

“She didn’t even know what she’d do when she got back to New Orleans, but inside she felt a yearning to shove her hands…

— Sarah Rae

“She slipped so easily into the folds of his life”

— Emily St. John Mandel

“So they clutched at her like shipwrecked sailors, clinging to the rocks despite the fact that they are being battered to death against them.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“There were creases at the corners of her mouth, the marks of too many words bitten back.”

— Frances Hardinge

“She slid her boot soles onto the surface and nearly laughed at her own absurdity - to be careful not to slip even as…

— Eowyn Ivey

“She was damaged and broken and there wasn’t any kind of glue in the world that could fix her.”

— Julie Bale